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20 Years Ago (March 1988) - yikes, i was 3 years old, we were living in upland california in the house next to the hospital. our house had bars on the windows and was in the bad part of town. i loved doing ballet and tap dancing and from around this time came my notorious cat and pumpkin costumes (ill see if i can find a pic.) i was always playing with my much cooler older brother and thats about all i remember.
10 Years Ago (March 1998) – already talked about in a previous post so ill highlight other areas... i was 12, in 7th grade at summit middle school. played the flute in the band, got cut from the volleyball team, barely made the basketball, but was loving the track team. 800m and long jump were totally my events. still trying desperately to find myself and i think i had about 3 outfits that i seemed to rotate every week (one consisting of the over sized overalls, seriously three people could fit in there with me.) very hard to find clothes that age, rail thin and super tall.
5 Years Ago (March 2003) – i was 17 years old and about to graduate high school. i had the best school schedule, only classes 2-4 period, fifth was yearbook (which had been completed by that time) and sixth was athletics, which once water polo was done, i went home at lunch almost everday(once i could sign myself out). i used to meet my friend sheri at least twice a week for lunch at legends or to her house to watch saved by the bell and the game show network. I was playing club water polo with CHAWP and getting ready for our last go at the junior olympics (we ended up getting 4th). I had just recieved my rejection letter from UCI and told to ignore it, i was still admitted on a polo scholarship. i took a road trip to BYU to visit lyndsey and sami at least once a month with sheri, also stared in/co-founded the band bombdigity, which consisted mostly of band practice in the car, and never took off like it should have.
3 Years Ago ( March 2005) – i was planning my wedding to this wonderful man named justin. i had met him in history class the previous year and had a fun/wild year and a half getting to know him (depends who you talk to). i had just moved to fountain valley/huntington beach area from my true love of newport. my grandfather had just passed away from pnemonia the week before our wedding. i was full swing in the middle of my water polo season at UCI and justin was finishing up his swim team meets. i was crazy in love and busy as could be. i think thats when i started my 20 units a quater so i could graduate in three years. i got my fisrt real job that april as a waitress at SOMA cafe and loved it.
1 Year Ago (March 2007) – we were about to celebrate our 2 year aniversary in eugene oregon, justin was swamped with his first year of law school at the university of oregon, but had just heard back that he had gotten a job in portland as an intern for the summer. i was preparing to go back down to Irvine to finish my bachelors and getting ready for an entire summer without my hubby. we had some awesome friends we played with almost everyday, and were planning to move into a house with the mattice's for the next year to cut the cost of rent we were paying. i had just gotten my dream job at the university and was thrilled with life. we had finally gotten our puppy house trained and i was planning our amazing trip/honeymoon to new zealand as a surprise for justin for our anniversary. i was the secratery in the young womens program in the eugene fifth ward. we had started a weekly girls game night and volleyball at our church building.
So Far This Year (2008) – ive planned some amazing weekend getaways to see all that oregon has to offer, booked tickets to china, cut my hair the shortest it has ever been, held the newest baby to steal my heart, i just got my calling as the laurel advisor in the eugene 3rd ward, and found my new love, our DVR!! i am training for a triathalon in june. i have started reading alot more and skipping all commercials. but it is only march...
Yesterday – was tuesday, the bussiest day of the week. i typically work a 9 hour day because we have our department meeting at 8, which are always eventful. i realized when i got home for dinner that we had an empty fridge because i didnt want to buy anything when we were going to be gone for a week, so dinner consisted of egg salad sandwiches (justin wouldnt let me just eat cereal). we both read until about 9:30, then we were hoping to catch some of the open gym volleyball at the rec center, but no one was there, so we opted to take our dog for a run. this was the first time of the year i needed to use my inhaler before we went, i have really bad allergies here and all the greenery gives me asthma when i work out from march through sept.
Today – i slept in till 8, would have been longer if justin didnt get a phone call at that time, i didnt have to be to work till 10, i got my hair chopped off one more time on my lunch hour, did this post, checked out everyones blog, read some of my new book "the kite runner", made a list of everything not to forget for our trip ie. passports!, our firends are coming over for dinner and justin is going to make his yummy curry rice, hang with them a bit, make my hubby laugh, and fight for his attention from koda.
Tomorrow – is thursday. i have work 9-6, and then go home, finish packing for china, drive up to my aunts house just outside of salem (shes taking us to the airport), drop off koda and find someone to pick up our mail for the next week. clean the house cause i hate coming home to it dirty.
This year – is going to be exciting. im going to move to portland for the summer for justins job, becoming an aunt, dance on the great wall of china, adventure through oregon, see NY city and go to a yankee's game, meet some amazing people, and finish it up by moving to australia in july.
i tag steph, sheri, jill, lisa, laura, megan, annie, jake and if you are reading this, consider yourself tagged!
10 Years Ago (March 1998) – already talked about in a previous post so ill highlight other areas... i was 12, in 7th grade at summit middle school. played the flute in the band, got cut from the volleyball team, barely made the basketball, but was loving the track team. 800m and long jump were totally my events. still trying desperately to find myself and i think i had about 3 outfits that i seemed to rotate every week (one consisting of the over sized overalls, seriously three people could fit in there with me.) very hard to find clothes that age, rail thin and super tall.
5 Years Ago (March 2003) – i was 17 years old and about to graduate high school. i had the best school schedule, only classes 2-4 period, fifth was yearbook (which had been completed by that time) and sixth was athletics, which once water polo was done, i went home at lunch almost everday(once i could sign myself out). i used to meet my friend sheri at least twice a week for lunch at legends or to her house to watch saved by the bell and the game show network. I was playing club water polo with CHAWP and getting ready for our last go at the junior olympics (we ended up getting 4th). I had just recieved my rejection letter from UCI and told to ignore it, i was still admitted on a polo scholarship. i took a road trip to BYU to visit lyndsey and sami at least once a month with sheri, also stared in/co-founded the band bombdigity, which consisted mostly of band practice in the car, and never took off like it should have.
3 Years Ago ( March 2005) – i was planning my wedding to this wonderful man named justin. i had met him in history class the previous year and had a fun/wild year and a half getting to know him (depends who you talk to). i had just moved to fountain valley/huntington beach area from my true love of newport. my grandfather had just passed away from pnemonia the week before our wedding. i was full swing in the middle of my water polo season at UCI and justin was finishing up his swim team meets. i was crazy in love and busy as could be. i think thats when i started my 20 units a quater so i could graduate in three years. i got my fisrt real job that april as a waitress at SOMA cafe and loved it.
1 Year Ago (March 2007) – we were about to celebrate our 2 year aniversary in eugene oregon, justin was swamped with his first year of law school at the university of oregon, but had just heard back that he had gotten a job in portland as an intern for the summer. i was preparing to go back down to Irvine to finish my bachelors and getting ready for an entire summer without my hubby. we had some awesome friends we played with almost everyday, and were planning to move into a house with the mattice's for the next year to cut the cost of rent we were paying. i had just gotten my dream job at the university and was thrilled with life. we had finally gotten our puppy house trained and i was planning our amazing trip/honeymoon to new zealand as a surprise for justin for our anniversary. i was the secratery in the young womens program in the eugene fifth ward. we had started a weekly girls game night and volleyball at our church building.
So Far This Year (2008) – ive planned some amazing weekend getaways to see all that oregon has to offer, booked tickets to china, cut my hair the shortest it has ever been, held the newest baby to steal my heart, i just got my calling as the laurel advisor in the eugene 3rd ward, and found my new love, our DVR!! i am training for a triathalon in june. i have started reading alot more and skipping all commercials. but it is only march...
Yesterday – was tuesday, the bussiest day of the week. i typically work a 9 hour day because we have our department meeting at 8, which are always eventful. i realized when i got home for dinner that we had an empty fridge because i didnt want to buy anything when we were going to be gone for a week, so dinner consisted of egg salad sandwiches (justin wouldnt let me just eat cereal). we both read until about 9:30, then we were hoping to catch some of the open gym volleyball at the rec center, but no one was there, so we opted to take our dog for a run. this was the first time of the year i needed to use my inhaler before we went, i have really bad allergies here and all the greenery gives me asthma when i work out from march through sept.
Today – i slept in till 8, would have been longer if justin didnt get a phone call at that time, i didnt have to be to work till 10, i got my hair chopped off one more time on my lunch hour, did this post, checked out everyones blog, read some of my new book "the kite runner", made a list of everything not to forget for our trip ie. passports!, our firends are coming over for dinner and justin is going to make his yummy curry rice, hang with them a bit, make my hubby laugh, and fight for his attention from koda.
Tomorrow – is thursday. i have work 9-6, and then go home, finish packing for china, drive up to my aunts house just outside of salem (shes taking us to the airport), drop off koda and find someone to pick up our mail for the next week. clean the house cause i hate coming home to it dirty.
This year – is going to be exciting. im going to move to portland for the summer for justins job, becoming an aunt, dance on the great wall of china, adventure through oregon, see NY city and go to a yankee's game, meet some amazing people, and finish it up by moving to australia in july.
i tag steph, sheri, jill, lisa, laura, megan, annie, jake and if you are reading this, consider yourself tagged!
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on saturday i and my friend 
that after noon we took garrett (the ultimate thrift store shopper) to eugene jeans, a local "vintage and retro" second hand store. (for everyone who knows how many hippies we have in this town, you can imagine all the second hand stuff the produce). he was like a kid in a candy store, totally loved it. between that and our favorite hog dog place here in town we were a happy bunch. we managed to get a game of sand volleyball that afternoon because the weather was so nice. we spent the evening lounging around and i went to bed around 10:30 (and thats after the time change). i got almost 12 hours of sleep that night but it was totally needed after all the sleepless nights (just ask j how cranky i am if i dont get my sleep). we had to leave church a bit early to get garrett up to portland for his flight, but it worked out really well. garrett, thanks for coming out, you are always a pleasure to have around, and are always welcome!!
since living in oregon, the name of newport has come to mean a place totally different than my beloved former home of newport beach, california. so they are both cute little beach towns with a harbor and cute beach houses, but yet so different. the oregon coastline is breathe taking in all its beauty, more exotic and rugged (not to mention all beaches are national park and can be camped on anywhere). we had a blast staying with our friends the 
Sunday we went to the local ward for sacrement, walked down to the beach from the house, justin went surfing and greg got in with out a wet suit (crazy!!!), had an awesome lunch and headed back to reality. This was such a refreshing little break from the everyday, we owe such a big thanks to the jentzsch's for inviting us along for a great weekend. 
